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Using Syslog Messaging to Monitor Router Events
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Managing Syslog on a Router
Once you finish configuring Syslog on a router, you may occasionally need to:
• Disable or reenable the entire Syslog entity on the router. (See the next
section, “Disabling or Reenabling Syslog on the Router
.”)
• Disable or reenable a Syslog host or filter on the router. (See “Disabling or
Reenabling Syslog Hosts or Filters” on page C-24.)
• Delete remote hosts or entity filters from the current Syslog configuration.
(Refer in this section to “Deleting Remote Hosts or Entity Filters from the
Syslog Configuration.”)
• Delete Syslog from the router. (See “Deleting Syslog from the Router
” on
page C-25
.)
Disabling or Reenabling Syslog on the Router
You can, if necessary, disable the Syslog service anytime after enabling it on a
router. Enter the following command line to disable Syslog:
$: set wfSyslog.wfSyslogDisable.0 2;commit
Disabling Syslog on the router:
• Transitions all Syslog hosts and their filters to an INACTIVE operational state
in the router configuration
• Halts all message forwarding from Syslog to any Syslog hosts configured on
the router
You can also reenable Syslog after disabling it on a router. Enter the following
command line to reenable Syslog:
$: set wfSyslog.wfSyslogDisable.0 1;commit
Reenabling Syslog on the router
• Transitions Syslog hosts and their filters to an ACTIVE operational state in
the router configuration. (Only n Syslog host entries transition to the ACTIVE
state, where n = the value of wfSyslogMaxHosts.)
• Resumes all message forwarding from Syslog to Syslog hosts configured on
the router. (Syslog forwards messages to n hosts only, where n = the value of
wfSyslogMaxHosts.)